Rainer Hubovsky wrote:
> Thank you Reinhold, that was the solution. But just because I am curious:
> what is this statement without the parentheses? After all it is a valid
> statement...
it's an expression that fetches the "close" method object, and throws
it away. to see what it evaluates to, try running the code from the
interactive prompt (or add a print statement):
>>> f = open("foo", "w")
>>> f.close
<built-in method close of file object at 0x00836B20>
also see
http://docs.python.org/ref/exprstmts.html
http://docs.python.org/ref/attribute-references.html
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